Changing Sprint Touch Pro back cover color

Hey everyone, I was a bit bored and had an extra cover for the Sprint Touch Pro laying around. I never was too fond of the silverygoldish stock sprint cover, so I decided to try some dye. I read up on this on another forum and decided to give it a go. I mixed the dye into some warm water and put the cover in for about 8 minutes.

Here it is before:



Here it is after, next to an unmodified cover on a Sprint Touch Pro:







This dye is supposed to come out as being a nice cool blue, however I made the mistake of putting too much dye in. Much too much dye. This made it come out more purple than anything unfortunately. In person it is much more purple than the pictures depict. I might try mixing some black dye up and doing a fade effect from black into the blue (which is unfortunately a bit purpleish ).



Anyway, just thought I would share.

 

Haha, it's called RIT dye. I went to Joann Fabrics and they had a huge selection. It was about 2.25 a box.

If you do it, just remember, only add a small amount of dye to the water. You can always add more if it isn't enough. I made the big mistake of just dumping a bunch in, thus it is purple.

 

Talk about a heating issue lol. Just for shiggles I tried turning on all the radios, downloading something over wifi, GPS on, brightness all the way up, and hTorch running the camera LED at full flash brightness continuously. In about 30 seconds that thing got unbelievably hot.

 

Lookin good! I might try and get some Rit dye remover and try and redo my cover that turned out to be bright purple.

 

Well, I got the Rit dye remover and it took most of it off! It left the cover looking slightly brown/gold.

I redyed it watered down to 1/3rd the concentration it was before, and it came out excellent! The blue is a bit darker than the photos depict, and there isn't a hint of purple!




Right next to it is the brand new back cover that came with my phone. It is actually silver unlike the ones from the used phones which seem to turn slightly brown.

 

Stopped by a Sprint store and got another brand new silver cover. I turned this one black.

Here is my collection so far:

 

LOL, nah I think I like silver better than purple. lol.

And yea, I updated my profile right after I posted. No more VZW for me. You have no idea how happy I am about that.


Also, the covers are free at sprint stores. I just told them the camera lense was all scratched up and asked if they had a spare. One was quite scuffed up (the one I dyed blue), and the other was brand new (the silver one I got today that is now black).